6274 - This blog is for my A2 Media Studies coursework, showing all stages that go towards my final production package.
Thursday, 23 April 2015
Feedback showing and changes made
From all the feedback we gained we ensured amendments to all were made. There were a few obvious things that kept coming up; these included;
-building the tension of the music
- reducing the running shots
- adding more children shots
-rearranging the order to make it less linear
-adding to storyline
we adapted all of these things and gained positive feedback; including;
-the transition of our new music tracks to make it more tense
- the order of shots
-the title screens to add narrative
- the narrative of children linking with older
- the filters on our 'flash back' images
- our London 'gritty' locations
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
Audience Feedback
We gained Audience feedback on multiple media platforms including both written and verbal comments. We gained this from our peers and target audience from both our social networking sights and our 1st draft showing.
Thursday, 16 April 2015
Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Final Trailer - Fracture
This is our final version of our trailer for our production coursework package...Enjoy.
Sunday, 1 March 2015
Creating our Website
We have chosen to create our website on 'WIX' as it is simple and easy to use. We are developing it as we go and will eventually have our final trailer at the top of the home page with useful links and information surrounding.
Creating our Animatic
We created an animatic in order tp help us visualise our story board further. The drawings are not brilliant but you get a clear idea of our trailer vision.
Friday, 6 February 2015
Poster Progress - Draft
We have been looking at overlaying images for our poster and are experimenting with how it looks and the mood it creates. We find this one too busy and are considering sticking to one still image as through research, the majority of social realism posters are one simple image. Even so it has been good to experiment to ensure we create an industry standard poster.
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
Iconic sounds and Foley sound experiments
We also experimented with foley sounds when we were recording making sure to get the real life sounds, for example traffic and birds. We have now decided to use no diegetic sound and are only having a soundtrack behind the shots as we feel it makes a trailer more emotive, gives less away for the main film and are all in agreement that voice overs or dialogue with in our trailer would be at risk of becoming 'cheesy'.
Monday, 2 February 2015
Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Social Realism Mood Board
We have taken elements from all of these pictures to help develop our piece. Our work has been influenced by many films
as we have taken costume, location, music, editing and even characterisation
ideas from them. In particular from “Fish Tank”, taking the idea from the
‘father figure’ character and how he is richer in comparison. Then taking our
poorer teenage character from a combination of the 'Trainspotting' men and the
teenagers from “Kidulthood". Being
influenced by their location choices, for example the council
estate, meant we used establishing shot to show this.
Friday, 23 January 2015
Thursday, 22 January 2015
Friday, 16 January 2015
Talent Sourcing - Casting
We started off with the idea of using a mixed gender cast and therefore did a bit of talent scouting with the girls we know who do drama. We then progressed to decide we wanted an all male cast as this was a unique selling point for our trailer - exploring the non-romantic relationship between two males as they grow up together and apart.


We therefore began talent scouting our male protagonists:
Saturday, 3 January 2015
Research - Film watching
Costume, props and makeup
We have been looking at the costume for our two main male leads.
One is in a suit and very neat to stereotypically show him to be more well off than the other.
Our other male protagonist is very casual and untidy, he is seen as a 'slob' made clear through his clothing choice.
One is in a suit and very neat to stereotypically show him to be more well off than the other.
Our other male protagonist is very casual and untidy, he is seen as a 'slob' made clear through his clothing choice.
Props used will be minimal and only a laptop and newspaper (as well as anything already on the desk within the office we will be using) for our rich male lead.
The props for our poor male protagonist are again already in the room we have chosen to use. He mainly uses cigarettes to show his 'youth' and drinks cheap beers.
At one point in the trailer they are both wearing football scarves to show their friendship and unity towards one an other.
Location Scouting
We have been looking at various locations
A few of our main include:
A modern flash looking office for our one of our male leads to be based in. From research we know that a office with large windows, grande views and lots of space are seen as higher class and for a more wealthy individual. This is why we have chosen an office meeting these criteria.
And in contrast to this, a very untidy, almost 'slobbish' mans bedroom. This will be a in a council tower block as this carries a stereotype of which our male lead protagonist fits into.
And more deprived streets and housing again to further show the life of our lead protagonist. We have chosen Grove Park Estate in London.
Google Maps street view helped us a lot with our choices. It therefore helped us decide on Grove Park London. It had the perfect atmosphere and feel to it that we required for our 'run down' working class area.
A few of our main include:
A modern flash looking office for our one of our male leads to be based in. From research we know that a office with large windows, grande views and lots of space are seen as higher class and for a more wealthy individual. This is why we have chosen an office meeting these criteria.
And in contrast to this, a very untidy, almost 'slobbish' mans bedroom. This will be a in a council tower block as this carries a stereotype of which our male lead protagonist fits into.
And more deprived streets and housing again to further show the life of our lead protagonist. We have chosen Grove Park Estate in London.
Before finalising on Grove park estate we had a look at Croyden, however it didn't have the tower blocks we were looking for. We then went on to look at both Rochester and Watford however both the flat blocks there have recently been done up and were too 'nice' looking to use. Watford was also quite far away for ease of filming.
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